Q&A: Seagate CEO talks about the Maxtor acquisition

ComputerWorld has conducted an , Bill Watkins, in regards to yesterday's acquistion of Maxtor.  Watkins believes that Maxtor brings quality engineers and its manufacturing capabilities to the mix.  Let's just hope that their  (you may need to register) doesn't transfer over as well:

What does Maxtor bring to the table considering this is a company that has been losing money? After doing due diligence, [we found] they're in better shape than most people realize. Historically, when deals have been done in this industry, people have gone out to acquire some sort of product road map, technology or specific business. This is not what this is about. We're very comfortable with our product road map and very comfortable with our manufacturing and platforms and strategy. This is really about bringing over the Maxtor revenue and leveraging it through our infrastructure. We get tremendous scale of value from that.

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